Back to list Films: Tue–Sun, 12–6pm, free. Live performances:
Sat 14, 21, 28, Thurs 19, 8–11pm, £5 Åbäke, Darran Armstrong, Assume Vivid Astro
Focus, Charles Atlas, Alexandra Bachzetsis, Kulwinder
Bajar, My Barbarian, Johanna Billing, Richard Crow, THE
ERRORISTS, Maxi Geil! & PlayColt, Ludovica Gioscia
& Karen Tang, Judith Hopf, Kitsune, Jason Nelson,
Esther Planas, Giles Round, DJ Rubbish, Saltpeter,
Wilhelm Sasnal, Slackers, Matt Stokes, Los Super Elegantes. For two weeks this Summer the SLG will be
transformed into 'The Weasel': a music venue showcasing
artists working with popular music. Presented on a stage
specially designed by Assume Vivid Astro Focus, 'The
Weasel' combines artists' film and video with live
performances, which reflect upon and investigate the
cultures and sub-cultures of popular music. The project
will be documented with a unique 'bootleg' of
photography and sound. Art colleges have been notorious breeding grounds
for some of the most influential bands in pop such as
David Bowie, Pulp, Franz Ferdinand and the Artrocker
phenomenon, while the impact of MTV has brought together
image and sound more closely today than ever before.
From protest song to electro pop, cabaret to rave, 'The
Weasel' presents a series of artists’ films exploring
social, personal and political meanings of the
soundtracks that surround us. Assume Vivid Astro Focus will transform the SLG
in spectacular fashion with their psychedelic stage
hosting performances by artist bands including Maxi
Geil! & PlayColt, THE ERRORISTS and Slackers. Fresh
from supporting the Scissor Sisters on tour, Maxi Geil!
& PlayColt will launch their debut album of seedy
glam pop as well as present their feature length film
'Nausea II'. A programme of artists' films during the day
complements the live performances, with works that use
and abuse the pop video format. Wilhelm Sasnal's Vincent
Award winning gritty documentary 'The River' features a
series of studio recordings of New York bands. Other
films include contributions from kitsch Californian pop
stars Los Super Elegantes and Charles Atlas's visually
overloaded collaborations with Leigh Bowery. On the final evening of 'The Weasel', Beck's
Futures winner, Matt Stokes will host a closing party
with DJs playing music from the last three decades from
old school house to Nu Rave. Live performances by
Alexandra Bachzetsis and Giles Round will be
incorporated with sound pumping from Stokes's replica of
a mid-eighties acid house sound system. | 
